What the venture landscape is really like for Europe's female founders

As the co-founder of Entrepreneur First, which is both a VC-backed startup and a company builder, Alice Bentinck knows how tough it is to run a successful early-stage business while trying to find the founders of the future to build their own.

It also puts Bentinck in the centre of Europe's VC/entrepreneur intersect, giving her a 360-degree view of the investment landscape for founders—and one of its ugly truths. [ PitchBook ]

Coinbase is buying Earn.com for about $100 million in a deal that is mostly about one key hire

Coinbase has made its first real acquisition. In a deal that shows how the cryptocurrency platform continues to mature and expand, Coinbase is buying Earn.com, a portal that allows people to make money by answering emails or completing other tasks.

Coinbase’s offer was slightly more than $100 million, according to people familiar with the deal, though with some juicy earn-outs for Earn leadership. Earn encountered some pushback from its investors at that sale price because that’s a sharp decrease from its last round of private financing in 2015 — $310 million before the new cash, according to PitchBook — though later investors will as usual be paid out first. [ Recode ]

The Top 100 Venture Capitalists

For a third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to develop a data-driven ranking of the world's best venture capital partners. Here are the top 100.

For the third year in a row, CB Insights partnered with The New York Times to provide an algorithmically-driven view into the question of who are the top VCs. Not swayed by narrative or a storied history in venture capital, the NYT-CBI rankings provide a current view into the best venture capitalists in the
world at an individual and firm level. [ CB Insights ]

16 startups that this year became worth billions

Amid the tech landscape, "unicorns" are few and far between. Last year, CB Insights tallied the odds of becoming a unicorn — a company valued at $1 billion or more — at under 1%.

But already,
within the first few months of 2018, a total of 16 companies have overcome those odds and crossed the billion-dollar-valuation mark. These companies, originally rounded up in a recent report by Pitchbook, are working to transform industries like transportation, medicine, entertainment, data analysis, and farming. [ BusinessInsider ]

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Di-Ann is Director of Growth for crowd-sourced navigation and real-time traffic application, Waze, now part of Google. Working across users, governments, international media and local community. The Near Future of Mobility Driven by Data. Di-Ann Eisnor, director of growth at Waze, describes how the origin of the real-time navigation app is one of prototyping and its evolution a story of iteration. She explains how the company,. Keynote by Di-Ann Eisnor (Head of Growth, Waze) 4YFN 2015 - Audi Theatre March 2nd, 2015 an event of Mobile World Capital Barcelona. [ Youtube ]